Graduate Trainee - Communications

Job Details

Girls for Climate Action (G4CA) is seeking a creative, dynamic, and results-oriented Graduate Trainee - Communications to join the communications team and support the organization's communication and visibility efforts in Jinja, Uganda. The role will contribute to and implement communication strategies that strengthen the brand, increase stakeholder engagement, and communicate program impact to donors, partners, beneficiaries, and the public. Employment Type: Full Time. Duty Station: Jinja. Work Hours: 8.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of the organization's communication and visibility strategy.
• Create high-quality content for the website, newsletters, social media platforms, press releases, reports, and promotional materials.
• Manage the organization's social media accounts and website, ensuring regular updates and audience engagement.
• Produce compelling stories, blogs, photographs, videos, and other multimedia content highlighting project achievements.
• Coordinate media relations and maintain relationships with journalists and media houses.
• Support documentation of project activities and prepare communication materials for donor reports.
• Design communication and branding materials, including brochures, flyers, banners, infographics, and presentations.
• Ensure consistent application of the organization's branding guidelines across all communication products.
• Support planning and publicity for organizational events, campaigns, workshops, and conferences.
• Monitor media coverage and prepare periodic communication and visibility reports.
• Perform any other communication-related duties reasonably assigned by management.

Qualifications, Skills and Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Media Studies, Marketing, or related fields.
• Excellent writing, editing, and storytelling skills.
• Experience managing social media platforms and websites.
• Proficiency in graphic design tools such as Canva or Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience in photography, videography, and video editing is an added advantage.
• Flexible and quick to learn.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Creativity and innovation.
• Attention to detail.
• Strong planning and organizational skills.
• Teamwork and collaboration.
• Integrity and professionalism.
• Ability to engage diverse audiences and stakeholders.
• Recognizes and values diversity and actively supports gender equality and feminist principles.